EASC Guest Speaker Series: Encountering Bajiao: Plants, Perception, and Meaning-Making in Premodern China - Talk by Prof. Meimei Zhang

Encountering Bajiao: Plants, Perception, and Meaning-Making in Premodern China Friday, November 6, 2026 | 12:30PM-2:00PM | LVL 16 | RSVP EASC Guest Speaker Series: Talk by Prof. Meimei Zhang (Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Occidental College) with Faculty Moderator Wanmeng Li (EALC 110: East Asian Humanities: The Great Tradition) Over the past decade, the emerging field of critical plant studies has challenged anthropocentric approaches to the humanities by asking how plants participate in shaping human perception, culture, and environments. Rather than treating plants merely as symbol…